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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Medical Lab Technician (Medical Laboratory Technician)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Medical Lab Technician (Medical Laboratory Technician)” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 55% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

53%

“Medical Lab Technician (Medical Laboratory Technician)” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 53% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Chemical Technicians, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Conduct chemical and physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative and quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, and gaseous materials for research and development of new products or processes, quality control, maintenance of environmental standards, and other work involving experimental, theoretical, or practical application of chemistry and related sciences.

Avg. Annual Salary $61,300
Avg. Hourly Wage $29.47
Available Jobs (US) 55,640
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Chemical Technicians #19-4031
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Chemical Technicians”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.

  • Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.

  • Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.

  • Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.

  • Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.

  • Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Provide and maintain a safe work environment by participating in safety programs, committees, or teams and by conducting laboratory or plant safety audits.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.

  • Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.

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  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Liquid transfer pumps
  • High pressure sodium lamps
  • Bomb calorimeters
  • Bunsen burners
  • Pull spring balances
  • Glass burets
  • Gravity convection ovens
  • Personal computers
  • Pirani gauges
  • Laboratory pressing equipment
  • Thermal conductivity detectors
  • Molecular stills
  • Radiation detectors
  • Infrared lamps
  • Gas leak detectors
  • Gas burners
  • Metering pumps
  • Buchner funnels
  • Optical beamsplitting devices
  • Digital handheld thermometers
  • Hollow cathode lamps
  • Canister gas masks
  • Bimetallic strip thermometers
  • Laboratory tongs
  • pH indicators
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Aneroid barometers
  • Lyophilizers
  • Ultraviolet UV light detectors
  • Filter pumps
  • Thinlayer chromatography analyzers
  • Mercury vapor lamps
  • Ionization gauges
  • Graphite furnaces
  • Liquid-filled remote thermometers
  • Optical pyrometers
  • Atomic emissions spectroscopes
  • Heating mantles
  • Agitation tanks
  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Organic carbon analyzers
  • Rotameters
  • Laboratory balances
  • Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment
  • Multimeters
  • Polarizers
  • Differential refractometers
  • Rheometers
  • Deuterium lamps
  • Infrared IR spectroscopes
  • Volume displacement pumps
  • Single-pan balances
  • Test tube clamps
  • Pressure gauges
  • Diffusion pumps
  • Laboratory blenders
  • Cooling baths
  • Flame photometers
  • Reaction flasks
  • Utility clamps
  • Magnetic stirring bars
  • Claisen flasks
  • Radioisotope fume hoods
  • Bell jars
  • Polarimeters
  • Volumetric flasks
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Immersion heaters
  • Dust and particulate respirators
  • Gas chromatography equipment
  • Magnetic agitators
  • Sample crushers
  • Ultraviolet UV lamps
  • Transfer pipettes
  • Velometers
  • Laminar flow burners
  • Gravitational field indicators
  • Coulometers
  • Comparators
  • Triple beam balances
  • Laboratory drying ovens
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Ball mills
  • Explosion-proof fume hoods
  • Chromatography microsyringes
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Mainframe computers
  • Vacuum flask traps
  • Nebulizers
  • Distilling condensers
  • Bourdon gauges
  • Abbe refractometers
  • Mortars and pestles
  • Asbestos gloves
  • Hot air blowers
  • Automatic burets
  • U-tube manometers
  • Muffle furnaces
  • Plastic cuvettes
  • Eyewash fountains
  • Vapor monitor badges
  • Beckmann thermometers
  • Mercury barometers
  • Perchloric acid hoods
  • Ion exchange chromatography equipment
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
  • Automatic pipette cleaners
  • Titrators
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • Safety glasses
  • Safety showers
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Lasers
  • Bubble flow meters
  • Fluorimeters
  • Bubble-cap fractionating columns
  • Automated polarimeters
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Voltmeters
  • Safety gloves
  • Steam baths
  • Closed-end manometers
  • Geiger-Muller counters
  • Hirsch funnels
  • Ammeters
  • Face shields
  • Cartesian manostats
  • Automatic buret cleaners
  • Tension gauges
  • Finger pumps
  • Rotary evaporators
  • Glass tubing
  • Ruby lasers
  • Prisms
  • Photo detectors
  • Meker burners
  • Photocells
  • Westphal balances
  • Graphing calculators
  • Vacuum gauges
  • Dye lasers
  • Laboratory flasks
  • Turbidimeters
  • Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
  • Liquid chromatography equipment
  • Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes
  • Cork borer sets
  • Pycnometers
  • Gas drying tubes
  • Unequal-arm balances
  • Autotitrators
  • Homogenizers
  • Automated microviscometers
  • Monochromators
  • Safety goggles
  • Laboratory centrifugal pumps
  • Viscosity meters
  • Hazardous material protective clothing
  • Fluid scintillation counters
  • Hydrometers
  • Computer-controlled pumps
  • Dessicators
  • Drying pistols
  • Electronic toploading balances
  • Refrigerated coolers
  • Desktop computers
  • Exhaust hoods
  • Capillary tubing
  • Photomultiplier tubes
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
  • Gooch crucibles
  • Thermocouples
  • Lecture bottles
  • Flame ionization detectors FID
  • Evaporator rotators
  • McLeod gauges
  • Laboratory vacuum hand pumps
  • Evaporating dishes
  • Laboratory heating plates
  • Reflux condensers
  • Torsion balances
  • Chromatography developing tanks
  • Water aspirators
  • Volumetric glass pipettes
  • Glass laboratory crucibles

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